For me, the big three fictional detectives are Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Montalbano and Trygve Yamamura. Yamamura is of interest because he is written by Poul Anderson. Also, of course, Anderson managed to give this character an interesting background and a colourful setting. I will not solve the mystery before we are told the solution. How many readers of detective fiction are able to do this?
How many interesting series characters did Anderson write? How many interesting central characters of single novels did he write? Quite a lot.
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Kaor, Paul!
I realize the mystery is not your special favorite, altho you like some mysteries, such as those featuring Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Montalbano. But do you have any opinions about GK Chesterton's Fr. Brown, Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe, Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, or John Dickson Carr's very Chestertonian Gideon Fell? I read many of these stories as a younker.
Series characters created by Poul Anderson? Let me list some: Trygve Yamamura, Manse Everard, Nicholas van Rijn, Dominic Flandry, Anson Guthrie, and Wing Alak. And Alexander Jones, Plenipotentiary of the Interbeing League to Toka!
Have reached ten paragraphs on my essay about "Night Piece." But I now need to do some checking up on Franz Kafka, and I don't want to use Wikipedia for that. Which means I will have to go to the local library to look up Kafka in reputable reference works like the NEW CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA or the BRITANNICA.
Sean
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